To think that INSET days are.....

[thismousebites]

basically just another day off?
So, all you teachers out there, what exactly do you do on INSET days?

You could have easily fitted, "basically just another day off?" into the subject line so that we didn't have top open the thread.

For that reason alone YABU.

I wish they would do the inset days all together at the end of July

during term time - not in the holidays!

Ivykaty - we have 2 of our Inset in September. One is analysis of GCSE results and new whole school areas of focus. The other involves our performance development target setting for the year and creating individual action plans for our new year 11s. Neither of these can be done in July.

Also, we always have a lot of new staff starting who need this time to get to grip with school policies too.

Other Inset through the year includes epipen training (yearly), safe-guarding, pastoral issues, new initiatives, curriculum changes, training on new computer software etc.

So. Many. Sarcastic. Responses. Welling. Up. Inside. Can't. Cope. Aaaargh

Then I wish you had 5 days in july and then two days in september

not sure why you would all be watching Mr Bean, training needs to be motivating but not silly and always the same

Seriously? You used to teach but you ask why teachers need CPD?

OK

Another OP who thinks teachers turn up at 8.55am and are out the door at 3.05, yes?

Go away. Not. Worth. It.

Dd used to think they were INSECT days and the teachers spent them doing bug hunts. I still secretly like to think some where there is a school where they do this!

Various training and updates - safe guarding, child protection, H&S, curriculum matters, phonics, etc.

However, walk past the school next week and yes school will be closed despite there being 2 training days.

This is because we have already done the required hours as Twilight sessions - 4 long evenings after school. We took these in this way as we were having a new Phonics programme launched and the person running the training prefers the training done as such, plus it meant it was at the point in the year when we actually required it.

Training probably needs to be sorted then so it is not head teachers - s this the norm?

most of my training while working has been done out of house and not my boss so to speak

hulababy - that is my point - why do twilight working when the school could be closed and you do it during the same dates but int he day time - stop all this extra evening work.

No one really wants to be working all day and then training at night

Needs to be a certain times in the year
Needs to be a times when the external trainers can come in
Not always convenient for a full day (ie the phonics)

etc

I used to teach but left to go self employed way before inset days were introduced.

Haven't inset days been around for donkey's years?

I don't think anyone has actually answered the question in the op.

Yes.

YABU.

Gavel.

Since late 70s iirr, so been around some 20+ years now

If the OP left teaching preINSeT that must have been before 87/88

OP you weren't unreliable to wonder what happens on an INSeT day, but the way you asked was inflammatory

No point in having INSET in July if a new programme/system is being implemented in October or there is a need for moderation in March?

Hulababy

so the OP is a very old Fairytale character who appears to live under a structure built to span a river

Sorry - decade out, late 80s they were introduced, 20+ years ago.